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- From: jrt@omega.kcr.uky.edu (J. Randall Thompson)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions as Medical Fraud
- Keywords: circs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.213502.4916@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:35:02 GMT
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- Organization: Kentucky Cancer Registry, Univ. of Ky
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- In article <gdavis.722200408@griffin> gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis) writes:
-
- [...stuff deleted about the evil forces inducing parents to circ children...]
- >
- >As far as the hygiene issue goes its more difficult for a kid to wash
- >his face than penis,yet we still see circumcision advocated for hygiene.
- >
- >Its largely done from conformity and out of ignornace.
- >--
- >I Gary Davis Dpt. of Electrical Engineering
- > University of Vermont
-
- As the father of two circumcised boys (the last 6weeks ago) you might
- be interested to know the cost was $60 - hardly a money maker for the MD.
- Also, the choice *is* a personal decision for the parents to make;
-
- If you have kids, you should know that getting them to was their faces
- (as with any part of their bodies) is next to impossible.
-
- --
- [] J. Randall Thompson jrt@kcr.uky.edu []
- [] University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky []
-